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` GATE. No. 402,439. Patented Apr. 30,1889.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES- PATENT 'Frisian WILLIAM L. HAAS, OF CHARLES CITY, IOWA.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 402,439, dated April 30, 1889 Application filed May 18, 1888. Renewed April l, 1889. Serial No. 305,646. (No modell To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLLAM L. HAAs, a citiand useful improvements in farm-gates; andit has for its objects to provide an extremely simple and practical gate that may be constructed at a minimum cost, and whose outer end will be readily adjustable vertically to compensate for sagging or other purposes, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, that will be fully hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

4The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the gate complete; Fig. 2, a detail perspective view of a portion of the rear endv of the gate 5 Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the hookbolt for holding the intersecting diagonall wires in the center of the gate.

In the drawings, the lettersA A' represent, respectively, the supporting and latch posts, and Bthe gate proper, which is constructed, essentially, of the end battens, C C, the center beam, E, and the continuous wire D. The gate 1s hung upon the pintles I (supported upon the post A) by means of the eyebolts K, or in any other suitable manner.

J ournaled between the end battens of the gate are the grooved rollers or sheaves L, the saine bolts that secure the battens together serving also as journals for these grooved rollers. The horizontal centerbeam, E, stretches the full length of the gate, and preferably eX- tends between the end battens, this beam bengprovided with transverse rounded pins or projections E', which abut against the inner faces of the respective battens, the battens being preferably slightly notched for the reception of the said pins. The battens C C are connected together,and the center beam is held in place by means of the continuous wire D, which passesfreely over the sheaves L,

'journaled between the battens, and is kept taut by the wire-stretcher M, which may be of any approved or well-known form. The

I wire may be passed around the pulleys in any desired manner, as is evident; but I prefer to arrange them as shown. The wire D in this instance starts at the point a, at the upper end of the outer batteri, C' ,passes down diagonally across the gate and around the pulley at the lower end of inner battens, C, from thence horizontally across to the lower end of battens C', and around the pulley there, up between the battens C and over the next pulley, and then back across the gate again, and so on until it reaches the uppermost pulley between the innerbattens, C, and from thence it is carried down diagonally across the gate to the point b at the lower end of the outer battens, C', where it is secured. Where the diagonal .portions of the wire intersect they are securely clamped to the center beam by means of a hook-bolt, N, which passes transversely through the center beam and has applied to it a binding-niit, N'. By this con struction of gate any sagging of its outer end may be readily compensated for, all that is necessary being to loosen the hook-boltN, adjust the gate, and then tighten up the bolt again, and the gate will be held in its adjusted position, the continuous wire in all cases being kept in a perfectly taut condition by the stretcher M.

Theletters O represent spacing-bars secured to the horizontal portions of the wire of the gate, and P a suitable spring-actuated latchbar, which automatically engages with the strip or plate P', secured to the latch-post-A', and serves to hold the gate in a closed position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a gate, the combination, with the end battens, a pivotally-supported center beam, and pulleys journaled between the said battens, of a continuous wire, D, passed around the said pulleys and extending back and forth across the gate, substantially as described, and a wire-stretcher applied to said continuous wire.

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horizontal center beam, and pulleys journaled upon said battens, of a continuous wire passing around these pulleys and extending back and forth across the gate, substantially as herein described, and means for stretching the said continuous wire.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in 2o presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L. HAAS.

Witnesses:

E. M. SMITH, JOHN J. HARING. 

